Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 December 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites

9:30 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

I suppose I am referring more to the adult population in that sense. There are a whole range of services that are provided around homelessness, quite aside from the accommodation piece and in any particular facility.

Many of the exits that we are seeing from homelessness are into social housing, as new social housing is being delivered or into a tenancy. That is the focus. Around the family piece in particular, the provision of homeless hubs over the past number of years has been an improvement in the type of facilities offered to families where that can be done. That has been part of the targeted approach on the family side.